The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-04-20
HAD HE A HEART !
BY A. D. BAILIE.
I'm tired now, and sleepy too,
Come put me in my little bed


So she softly sang, and then she gasped
and rubbed her eyes.
80, Willie Moore, if l had you here
I'd comb your little head for you with a
three-legged stool, l would, you rascal.
Two o'clock in the morning, packing not
half done, and your precious wife with
her back broke"
Thus groaned sleepy, tired little Henri
eta Moore (nee Henrietta Miles,, pro-
fessionally known as Mile. Henrietta
Millesturoh, late Of the - Theatre.
A little over seventeen years of age,
slight but perfect in form, with pure,
fresh complexion, blooming cheeks,
clear, blue eyes, and movements of free.
undulating grace and flowing ease, with
irregular features and chanseful express
sion, which would have delighted an ar
tist and driven photographer to despair,
she was a sprightly little beauty to glad
den the eyes of those who loved q good,
pretty face.
The room in which she waited for her
husband was by no means tidy. Two
half-packed trunks stood open; upon the
bed and floor dresses and coats, shirts and
skirts, lay scattered in confusion.
William Moore, just of age, inclined to
be fast, good-looking, soft of heart and
head, until lately bookkeeper in a com
mission house, had week before mar
ried this child of the theatre for love
thereby pleasing himself, gaining his
idol, and losing the friendship of his
highly respectable relations and his situa-
tion-for which he cared little. The
young couple were to start on the NOR
row in the MONDAY train for Chicago.
where William was to invest the 81, SOC
Just paid into the bank subject to his
order, his portion of his fathers estate,
with an established firm in whose house
he was also To gil the position of book
feeper.
He had gone out early in the evening
TO have a farewell supper with some
friends. 1t was o'clock, A. NJ, and he
had not yet returned.
Henny (she was always called Henny)
gaped again, and then seizing a pretty
Gttle gray travelling bonnet Gust new
from the bed, she went through, for the
twentieth time. with the '.trying-on'
process.
She heard the front door shut and lis
tened; the step upon the stairs was slow
and dragging.
- 'Tain't Willie" she sighed, and
turned again TO the mirror.
The door of the room WIS thrown
open.
"Why, Williem
/ 1t was her husband. He entered the
room in silence, his dress disordered, hi.
face pale, and his hands trembling. HI
. 80 Oh. yaI h.av- -
| despairing sadness He had been drink
ing, but was nearly sober now. The
wife began:
''a you're real mean TO 90 anC
lea ll night by myself and 90 get
tig y all the packing to do yet; it;
shabby Of you, so it Is. "
"All right, Henry Pitch into me
Go ahead But you needn't pack am
more We can't GO"
Needn't pack any more Can't go =
she echoed, with surprise, why not2"
Cause I'm dead broke; lost ever
rap. There, now it's OUT" he said
dashing his hat on the floor. She turned
on him ferccly;
William Moore, do you mean to tel
me, after all you promised me, that you'v
been" and a look finished the question
pitch into me-pitch in, Henny,n b.
/ groaned; Il started for only one gam
after supper, and kept on and on, and
now its all gone, every rap' and, poor
weak sinner, the tears began to fill hi
eyes.
'sWnl Moore, you're a." com
menced the wife; but, looking at him
the big, good-looking boy of a HUSBAND
that She loved SO we'll the harsh word
died upon her lips, and She went and sa
upon his knee and coddled him, saying
"Oh, Willie, I'm so sorry. l ha'
hoped So much-so much-and now it
all over;n and she gave deep, sobbinl
sigh rs il all gone, Williet Who wa
itn She asked, after q time.
Cleaned out; every cent, he an
swered. after supper I'd been drink
ing some, and Chick Layton proposed
game-and l didn't think Of what II
promised yOu-and l didn't lose much
I'd have won every cent back, sure, 0nl
old ID. ID. came In, and be rOped in an,
took a hand; and be got my check 10
every cent We have in the world Ga
Hennv. ] don't care for myself. it's 70
rm thinking Of, and that makes m
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